The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Mr.. BANCROFT keeps eight type writers busy
YoNKERs Statesman: 'You can get more
wind out of 10.cent fan than you can from a
$500 one. It's the same way with a 10-cent
man"
THE ST. George Society Of Washington will
mark the Queens jubilee by endowing and fur
nishing in her name ward in the Garfield Hos
pital.
THE presidency of Adelbert College. at Cleve-
land, O., has been offered to Professor Herbert
B. Adams, Of the Johns Hopkins University, of
Baltimore.
OMAHA Bee: The last person to speak the
Cornish language was woman. When wom-
an ceases to speak a language, that language is
dead indeed.
NORTH CAROLINA clergyman not only re-
fused to marry an clipping couple but arrested
the bride and telegraphed her father that he held
her subject to his orders.
For the first time Sweden has woman who
is recognized physian by the faculty. She
is Miss Nielsen, took her degree with the high
est honors, and s practcing in Copenhagen.
NINA VAN ZANDT, who claims to be the wife
of August Spies, is rapidly failing in health. It
is said that she will probably die before the
Supreme Court has rendered a decision in her
lovers case.
THE Rev. DR.. Samuel Buckingham of Spring
field, Mass, who last Sunday preached bis for
tietn anniversary sermon, two years after his in
stallation boarded in a house on the very spot
where his church now stands
r. B. SEARS, the champion lawn-tenni player
of America. is young man, with blonde hair
delicate blonde mustache and very rudy
complexion. He eyeglasses is always
carefully dressed and smokes cigarettes
BERTHA Won HILLERN the athletic landscape
painter, has returned from California and settled
down for the summer in her studio 10 the Shen-
nd ah oil OrIo Sha hng hna mall inn
study of California trees. and the result will
doubtless be number Of very presentable
pictures
FRENCH physicians have discovered, from
study of the manner of death at the great fire in
Paris, that it never comes more painiessly tn an
in the interior of burning theater. Many vic
Tins are frightened to death and the blood rush
to the heart. Others die from asphyxia due
to carbonic acid.
THE parchment commission of President An
drew Jackson to Commodore Charles Stewart
cold Ironsidesvl, grandfather of Charles Stew
art Parnell has been received by the Irish leader
from aydrector Cunningham. of the United
States navy. The first initial of the Presidents
signature is said to be three inches long.
M. ALBERT MENIER, the wealthy French
chocolate manufacturer, is his way East
from California. He abandoned his yacht
Nemesis, in which he had been making six
months cruise, at Yokohama and is now hurry
ing back to France by way of the United States.
His father left him immense fortune accumu-
lated in the manufacture or chocolate and the
young man is developing marked ability in
spending money.
By tho death of Mark Hopkins the country
loses a man OF worth and wisdom, and Williams
College sustains an irreparable affliction. Mark
Hopkins was a tall, we'll built man with face
strong. intellectual and full of repose and kind
Illness AS president of Williams he in
contact with many men of note and wherever
ing mind and genial spirit were loved and hon
ored. The country has had but few men who
have done more for the good of their fellows
than Mark Hopkins.
IN the district Of Krassno near Smolensk.
Russia, is now living, according to the Novoe
Vremya, the last representative of the English
noble house of Leslie. His ancestor settled in
Russia in the early part of the seventeenth CEN
in the government of Smolensk These estates
have gradually passed into the possession of
strangers, and the present direct representative
of the once powerful Anglo Russian house of
Leslie now enjoys only the barren memories of
the halcyon days of his early predecessors. The
old line of Leslies in England is extinct, and
this Russian Leslie is, it is believed. heir to the
English title to the estates, which very
considerable.
THERE was recently sold in Paris a letter writ
ten Aug, II, 1919 by the Duke of Kent, in which
occurs this passage about his infant daughter,
now Queen Of England: Her first name is
Alexandrina; Victoria, by which name she is al
ways called at home. is her last. being that of
her dear mother. The first she bears after her
godfather, the Emperor of Russia. AS to her
resemblance to both of her parents, may tell
you that her mouth and her hair, which last
promises to be dark brown, are like her mothers.
Every body says that her eyes and nose are mine.
Yesterday she accomplished her twelfth week,
and. what is remarkable, she is strong as
child Of five months, and already shows symp-
toms Of teething."
THE late Charles E. de la Motto, of Philadel-
phia, was descendant Of Jean Herin de la
Motto born in Paris in the year 1920, who was
a Huguenot and was compelled on account of
his religious principles, to fly from France to
Switzerland. Embracing in a Dutch vessel, ne
came to America, married and settled at Han
over. Yerk county, Pennsylvania Again. when
the French and Indian war broke out, he, with
his four sons, was compelled to fee for safety
losing all his family papers and valuables on the
road. During the Revolution he visited by
his brother, Nicholas de la Motte who was a
marshal in the French army for the purpose, it
is supposed, of adopting more of his
(Jeans) sons. This the latter refused, regard
ing his brother rather in the light of of
blood and Catholic, TO boot. Nicholas de la
Motto returned to France, and all connection be-
tween the two families was severed, as he was
never heard OF afterwcrd.